The genetic code, a universal blueprint for life, governs how DNA and RNA sequences translate into proteins. While its ...

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

Protein translation uses transfer RNAs (tRNAs), which are aminoacylated with their cognate amino acids by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase enzymes, to read triplet codons in messenger RNAs (mRNAs) via base ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? Subscribe ...

It was long thought that unless a mutation in a gene's sequence changed the resulting amino acid, it had no significance - the mutation was said to be 'silent.' But researchers have been questioning ...

New research is casting doubt on a commonly held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins, suggesting the genetic code is more diverse than previously thought. New research is casting doubt on ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of ...

Proteins – the molecular machines that drive the processes underlying biology – are made from just 20 canonical building blocks called amino acids. For nearly two decades, scientists have sought ...

Nature encodes nucleic acids to assemble enormously complex and highly functional materials that form the foundation of life. To establish a similar code to construct synthetic, unnatural materials ...

Evolution settled on a genetic code that uses four letters to name 20 amino acids. Synthetic biologists adding new bases to DNA will be free to improve on nature — if they can. With recent innovations ...

There are many possible three-letter genetic codes that could adequately encode protein sequences, but what about the need to encode higher-order information on binding and splicing sites? New ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...